30th Children's Peace Drawings Competition
～Many outstanding works submitted～
The awards ceremony for the Children's Peace Drawings Competition was held on December 12, 2015.
The aim of the competition, which has been held every year since 1986, is to heighten children's awareness of peace. This year marks the 30th time it has been held. A total of 4,227 works were submitted by students from 122 elementary and junior high schools in Hiroshima City, and 237 works were sent in from elementary and junior high school students from 6 foreign countries (America, Australia, India, Iran, Korea and Russia), for a total of 4,464 works submitted in total.
The ceremony was attended by 33 of the Excellence and Distinction Award winners and their parents, and the winners received a certificate and commemorative gift at the ceremony.
In conjunction with the competition, there was an exhibition of the works held from the day of the awards ceremony to January 15 this year, in the foyer in front of the Memorial hall on floor B1 of the East Wing of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.
On display at the exhibition were 102 of the works awarded the Excellence, Distinction and Merit Awards.
The names of the winners of the Excellence, Distinction, Merit and Honor Awards are listed in the Kids Peace Station section of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum home page.
The aim of the competition, which has been held every year since 1986, is to heighten children's awareness of peace. This year marks the 30th time it has been held. A total of 4,227 works were submitted by students from 122 elementary and junior high schools in Hiroshima City, and 237 works were sent in from elementary and junior high school students from 6 foreign countries (America, Australia, India, Iran, Korea and Russia), for a total of 4,464 works submitted in total.
The ceremony was attended by 33 of the Excellence and Distinction Award winners and their parents, and the winners received a certificate and commemorative gift at the ceremony.
In conjunction with the competition, there was an exhibition of the works held from the day of the awards ceremony to January 15 this year, in the foyer in front of the Memorial hall on floor B1 of the East Wing of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.
On display at the exhibition were 102 of the works awarded the Excellence, Distinction and Merit Awards.
The names of the winners of the Excellence, Distinction, Merit and Honor Awards are listed in the Kids Peace Station section of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum home page.
Exellence (Elementary School Category)
Ayane Ue
6th Grade, Hiroshima Municipal
Yanominami Elementary School
Exellence (Overseas Category)
Seyede Saba-Mostafavi Montazeri
2nd Grade, Junior High School
Islamic Republic of Iran
(Peace Memorial Museum Outreach Division)